"The prince has won the prize." The two of them bowed down to take the teacups, both with flattered expressions.

"Tell me what's going on in the northwest." Ling Zhao straightened his sleeves, reclined on the brocade pillow on the couch, held the dragon jade handle in his sleeve, and made preparations to listen.

"His Royal Highness has made a great contribution this time, and he made dumplings for the Xili barbarians who committed crimes in Caopozi......" Sun Zhi drank two sips of hot tea tightly, put down the teacup and reported in detail what they had discovered.

Ling Zhao listened attentively, and deliberately asked carefully about some unclear places, and after listening to the report, the joints of his hand holding the jade handle were a little pale, and he was silent for a while, and the corners of his lips pulled up a sneer: "This third child is really a little capable!" ”

"Lord Wang, the Wushu barbarian of Xili asked us to bring you a box of musk." As soon as Sun Zhi spoke, Wang Xiu hurriedly got up and moved the black lacquer box that had been brought in earlier to Ling Zhao and opened it.

Ling Zhao said with a disgusted face: "This king doesn't like this smell, Yugu, you ask someone to take it to Tianxiang Tower." ”

"The fart of the vultures barbarian slapped the wrong place again......" Chu Yugu said with a smile.

"The Zhenxi Army has opened up with the barbarians, Lord Wang, do we still hang him?" Sun Zhi asked cautiously.

Ling Zhao pinched the jade handle, glanced at the black lacquer box, and said slowly: "What he has plans for is not unrelated to what this king is planning. Go back this time, give back a pearl, and bring Liu Ji with you. ”

"My subordinates understood." Sun Zhi replied.

A few people talked about Anyuan, and the kitchen brought food. When Sun Zhi and Wang Xiu had a meal and received the reward and were about to say goodbye, a man in a brown robe hurriedly walked in, he whispered in Ling Zhao's ear for a while, and Ling Zhao's face gradually showed joy.

After the brown-robed man left, Chu Yugu asked, "Is there good news in the palace?" ”

"The mother concubine sent someone to send a letter, my father had a fire in the imperial study before, and at this moment he has summoned Xue Shouren to leave for Beijing to report on his work."

"The Third Highness has made great contributions in the northwest, but Your Majesty has made a big fire?" Sun Zhi and Wang Xiu looked at each other, confused.

"The third child does not report good news, and my father is not sure of the border situation, so I have to summon Anyuan Zhizhou back to corroborate." Ling Zhao shook his head and smiled.

"Your Royal Highness, do you want to take the opportunity to put the prince together?" Chu Yugu asked with a smile.

"Presumably exactly. This king also happened to help the third child. Ling Zhao smiled, turned to Sun Wang and said, "I have to work hard for the two gentlemen to go to Yongsi City for a trip in the past two days." ”

Wang Xiu arched his hand and said: "Lord Wang, we are going back this time to pass through Yongsi......"

Ling Zhao waved his hand, "Zhong Jishu sent someone to wait for Xue Shouren at the post station outside the city, we have to be a little ahead, you go to Yongsi City to meet him by chance, as a merchant returning to the west, reveal some information to him, and then Yugu will lead the people of Tianxianglou to send him to the gate of Yongnian Palace all the way." ”

Sun Zhi was puzzled: "Then Xue Shouren is Zhong Jishu's person, he must be to help the prince speak." ”

Chu Yugu said with a smile: "Although Xue Shouren is Zhong Jishu's person, how he speaks depends on what information you reveal to him. If it reveals the information that His Royal Highness actually won the battle, he will naturally help the prince, but if he tells him that the vultures and barbarians will lead troops to attack the city in the spring...... What do you think he will do as Anyuan Zhizhou? ”

"The prince is clever!" Wang Xiu understood Ling Zhao's words, and couldn't help but be convinced, with a look of admiration.

Seeing Sun Zhi and Wang Xiu away, Chu Yugu also gave up his hand, but Ling Zhao grabbed him, "It's so late, just rest in the mansion." ”

"It's ten today, but it's the day when the prince accompanies the princess." Chu Yugu reminded.

Ling Zhao said: "I have ordered someone to inform her, tonight the king will discuss with the strategists all night......"

"All night?!" Chu Yugu was taken aback.

"You're going to Yongsi tomorrow, and you're going to go for several days, shouldn't you stay up all night?" Ling Zhao asked with a smile on the corner of his lips.

Chu Yugu looked around the warm pavilion, only to find that the maids in the room had already retreated at some point.

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The twilight was twilight, and there was a long queue outside the Anshun Gate in the west of Yongding City. Most of them are merchants pulling horse-drawn carts and ox carts, carrying boxes and bamboo cages, and they have to rush into the city to deliver goods.

Shu Mei led the auspicious omen and lined up behind an ox cart. There were several half-human-high bamboo baskets stacked in the simple wooden plank-lined ox cart, and I didn't know what was inside, but Ji Zhao stretched out his nose to sniff it.

"Bear with me a little longer, and when I get home, there is something delicious waiting for you." Shu Mei pulled the reins of the horse and pulled the horse's head over, reaching out to stroke its forehead, but it shook its head violently, "snorting" to prevent her from touching it.

"I know I've tired you these days, and I promise not to ride ......you for at least a month after I get home," I thought I was in a hurry to return to Beijing, and I hurried all the way to the stars and the moon, offending this tsundere, and Shu Mei comforted it while smoothing its hair.

"Master Shu, your horse is too stubborn, all the way to its love temperament, I think it's because of the beating." Shu Mei's words made the few people who escorted her laugh behind.

"This is a good character, and it didn't throw me off the horse......"

Before Shu Mei's words were finished, Ji Zhao actually opened the lid of a bamboo basket on the ox cart with his mouth, and before she could react, the horse actually jumped with both hooves, half of his body stepped into the ox cart, and stretched his neck into the bamboo basket.

"You evil beast!" The person driving the ox cart suddenly turned dark, and the leather whip was thrown over with a "snap". Ji Zhaosheng received this whip, and fled in a panic under the pain, but the ox cart was trampled over, and the bamboo basket on the car suddenly rolled down to the ground, and the bean cake rolled out of the dumped bamboo basket was mixed with the snow on the ground, and the bean cake led the surrounding horses and cattle to grab food, and the scene became a mess for a while.

The man who drove the ox cart panicked, threw away his whip and rushed over, and did not care about the cattle and horses fighting for food, but was in a hurry to help the bamboo baskets that had fallen to the ground.

"Uncle, this bean cake is not worth a few dollars, it's terrible to be hurt......"

Shu Mei was afraid that he would be trampled by cattle and horses, so he was busy pulling him. This pull, I was stunned. I saw that a white arm was exposed in a bamboo basket that he half-lifted up.

"Wait, what's in this basket?!" Shu Mei grabbed his arm tightly and asked.

Several guards behind him heard Shumei's voice and hurriedly surrounded him.

When the man who drove the ox cart saw that the situation was not good, his face changed drastically, and he immediately saw a gap and ran out.

"There's something wrong with this man, catch him!"

Shu Mei shouted, and the two guards strode out.

The chaos at the scene attracted the attention of the guards at the city gate. Soon, a team of halberd guards gathered around.

"What's going on here?" The head guard asked.

Shu Mei approached the bamboo basket and found that there was a person with a blue face inside!